Purchase/Rent: Canadian Music CentreÉlan is a short energetic fanfare composed in a post-minimalist style. The term Élan means “with a vigorous spirit or enthusiasm” and originates from the French terminology to rush and to launch. Keeping in character the work essentially launches us into a fast rush to the finish line. One in a series of fanfares commissioned by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada, with financial assistance from the Government of Canada.